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The rundown on your costs assume that the site or service remains “unpopular” (as in not used by the majority of internet users). Costs scale pretty high if one
by joshspankit 7y ago
The rundown on your costs assume that the site or service remains “unpopular” (as in not used by the majority of internet users). Costs scale pretty high if one finds themselves running a high-traffic site.
- munk-a 7y agoI am working under the (I think reasonable assumption) that if your thing actually manages to become popular then you can either share governance and costs with a committee of interested parties or actually justify a subscriber model - possibly semi-voluntary style like patreon.
- joshspankit 7y agoNeither helps in the short-term (say in the case of getting popular from a viral post where not living up to the momentum can mean losing out on the users), and while shared governance can work in a case where all parties have the same goal and are deep-pocketed, it has many risks when it comes to creative control and the user privacy/monetization scale. (What if someone had privately offered one of the MUD staff $500,000 to collect 'anonymous' data from users?)